Haile Gebrselassie Quotes

You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, ‘Why don’t you find a personal coach or a private car?’ I can’t. Then I won’t be part of my people.

You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.

You lose the speed before the stamina.

You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don’t, you have to disappear.

When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.

Some people start a sport just to reduce weight, or some say, ‘My doctor ordered me to run and do exercise’, and for others, they run for completely different benefits. But it is not like that with sport. We need to eat, we need to rest, but also we need to run.